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PRIVACY AND COOKIE POLICY

Web Announcements Ltd. PRIVACY AND COOKIE POLICY

LAST UPDATED: [May 2018 ]

Introduction

This privacy and cookie policy (“Policy”) describes how
Web Announcements Ltd. (“Company,” “we,”
and “our”) collects, uses and shares personal data when
using this website (the “Site”) and the associated
applications(s), (the “Applications”), together (the “ Services”). Please read the following information
carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal
data and how we will treat it.

Changes to this Policy:
We will post any modifications or changes to the Policy on our Services. We
reserve the right to modify the Policy at any time, so we encourage you to
review it frequently. The “Last Updated” legend above indicates when this
Policy was last changed. If we make any material change(s) to the Policy,
we will post a notice on our Services prior to such changes(s) taking
effect.

PURPOSES OF PROCESSING

What is personal data?

We collect information about you in a range of forms, including personal
data. As used in this Policy, “personal data” is as defined in the UK Data
Protection Act 1998/the European Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC/General
Data Protection Regulation 2018 and any successor legislation, this
includes any information which, either alone or in combination with other
information we hold about you, identifies you as an individual, including,
for example, your name, postal address, email address and telephone number.

Why do we need your personal data?

We will only process your personal data in accordance with applicable data
protection and privacy laws. We need certain personal data in order to
provide you with access to the Services. If you created a
profile/registered with us, you will have been asked to tick to agree to
provide this information in order to access our services, purchase our
products, view our content. This consent provides us with the legal basis
we require under applicable law to process your data. You maintain the
right to withdraw such consent at any time. If you do not agree to our use
of your personal data in line with this Policy, please do not use our
Services.

COLLECTING YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We collect information about you in the following ways:

Information You Give Us.
This includes:

the personal data you provide when you register to use our
Services, including your‎ name, email address, and password

the personal data that may be contained in any video, photo, image,
condolence, sympathy message, diary entry or other written
submission you upload or post to the Services

the personal data you provide when you report a problem with our
Services or when we provide you with customer support;

the personal data you provide when you make a purchase through our
Services; and

the personal data you provide when you correspond with us by phone,
email or otherwise.

the personal data you provide via any single sign-on service (SSO)
including your name and email address

Information from Social Networking Sites.
Our Services include interfaces that allow you to connect with social
networking sites (each a “SNS”). If you connect to a SNS
through our Services, you authorize us to access, use and store the
information that you agreed the SNS could provide to us based on your
settings on that SNS. We will access, use and store that information in
accordance with this Policy. You can revoke our access to the information
you provide in this way at any time by amending the appropriate settings
from within your account settings on the applicable SNS

Sites we currently connect to include :

Facebook

Twitter

Google +

Information We Get from Others.
We may also get information about you from other sources, for example, if
you have agreed to share information with one of our partners or affiliates
eg. newspapers,. this may include name and email address, we may add this
to information we get from our Services.

Information Automatically Collected.
We automatically log information about you and your computer or mobile
device when you access our Services. For example, when visiting our
Services, we log your computer or mobile device operating system name and
version, manufacturer and model, browser type, browser language, screen
resolution, the web page that referred you to our website pages you viewed
on our website, how long you spent on a page, access times and information
about your use of and actions on our Services. We collect this information
about you using cookies. Please refer to the sections on cookies, Flash
Technology and Pixel Tags below.

Automated Decision Making and Profiling.

We may use automated decision making and/or profiling in regard to your
personal data for some services and products, for example we may refuse
access based on your IP address, either temporarily or permanently, based
on frequency of page requests or inappropriate use. You can request a
manual review of the accuracy of an automated decision that you are unhappy
with or limit or object to such automated decision making and/or profiling
by contacting us at [email protected]

COOKIES

What are cookies?

We may collect information using “cookies.” Cookies are small data files
stored on the hard drive of your computer or mobile device by a website. We
may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your web browser)
and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer or mobile device until
you delete them or they expire after a set period which varies depending on
the cookie) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience
on our Services.

We use two broad categories of cookies: (1) first party cookies, served
directly by us to your computer or mobile device, which are used only by us
to recognize your computer or mobile device when it revisits our Services;
and (2) third party cookies, which are served by service providers on our
Services, and can be used by such service providers to recognize your
computer or mobile device when it visits other websites.

Cookies we use

Our Services use the following types of cookies for the purposes set out
below:

Type of cookie

Purpose

Essential Cookies

These cookies are essential to provide you with services
available through our Services and to enable you to use
some of its features. For example, we use session cookies
to provide you secure access to your account details and
prevent others from accessing your account. Without these cookies, the services that
you have asked for cannot be provided, and we only use
these cookies to provide you with those services.

Functionality Cookies

These cookies allow our Services to remember choices you
make when you use our Services, such as remembering your
language preferences, remembering your login details and
search filter choices to help prefill search forms on
subsequent visits to the site. The purpose of these cookies
is to provide you with a more personal experience and to
avoid you having to re-enter your preferences every time
you visit our Services.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

These cookies are used to collect information about traffic
to our Services and how users use our Services. The
information gathered does not identify any individual
visitor. The information is aggregated and anonymous. It
includes the number of visitors to our Services, the
websites that referred them to our Services, the pages they
visited on our Services, what time of day they visited our
Services, whether they have visited our Services before,
and other similar information. We use this information to
help operate our Services more efficiently, to gather broad
demographic information and to monitor the level of
activity on our Services.

These cookies track your browsing habits to enable us to
show advertising which is more likely to be of interest to
you. These cookies use information about your browsing
history to group you with other users who have similar
interests. Based on that information, and with our
permission, third party advertisers can place cookies to
enable them to show adverts which we think will be relevant
to your interests while you are on third party websites

You can disable cookies which remember your browsing habits
and target advertising at you by visiting
http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices
. If you choose to remove targeted or advertising cookies,
you will still see adverts but they may not be relevant to
you. Even if you do choose to remove cookies by the
companies listed at the above link, not all companies that
serve online behavioral advertising are included in this
list, and so you may still receive some cookies and
tailored adverts from companies that are not listed.

Social Media Cookies

These cookies are used when you share information using a
social media sharing button or “like” button on our
Services or you link your account or engage with our
content on or through a social networking website such as
Facebook, Twitter or Google+. The social network will
record that you have done this.

Disabling cookies

You can typically remove or reject cookies via your browser settings. In
order to do this, follow the instructions provided by your browser (usually
located within the “settings,” “help” “tools” or “edit” facility). Many
browsers are set to accept cookies until you change your settings.

If you do not accept our cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in
your use of our Services. For example, we may not be able to recognize your
computer or mobile device and you will not be able to log in and stay
logged in, and we will not be able to remember your language preferences.

FLASH TECHNOLOGY

We may also use Flash cookies (which are also known as Flash Local Shared
Object (“LSOs”)) on our Services to collect and store information about
your use of our Services. Unlike other cookies, Flash cookies cannot be
removed or rejected via your browser settings. If you do not want Flash
cookies stored on your computer or mobile device, you can adjust the
settings of your Flash player to block Flash LSO storage using the tools
contained in the Website Storage Settings Panel at
https://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html
. You can also control Flash LSOs by going to the Global Storage Settings
Panel at
https://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager03.html
and following the instructions. Please note that setting the Flash Player
to restrict or limit acceptance of Flash LSOs may reduce or impede the
functionality of some Flash applications, including, potentially, Flash
applications used in connection with our Services

PIXEL TAGS

We may also use pixel tags (which are also known as web beacons and clear
GIFs) on our Services to track the actions of users on our Services. Unlike
cookies, which are stored on the hard drive of your computer or mobile
device by a website, pixel tags are embedded invisibly on webpages. Pixel
tags measure the success of our marketing campaigns and compile statistics
about usage of the Services, so that we can manage our content more
effectively. The information we collect using pixel tags is not linked to
our users’ personal data.

DO NOT TRACK SIGNALS

Some Internet browsers may be configured to send "Do Not Track" signals to
the online services that you visit. We currently [do not] respond to do not
track signals. To find out more about "Do Not Track," please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com
.

ADVERTISING

Generally
. We may use other companies to serve third-party advertisements when you
visit and use the Services. These companies may collect and use click
stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements
clicked or scrolled over during your visits to the Services and other
websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely
to be of interest to you. These companies typically use tracking
technologies to collect this information. Other companies' use of their
tracking technologies is subject to their own privacy policies.

Targeted Advertising
. In order to serve offers and advertisements that may interest you, we may
display targeted advertisements on the Services, or other digital
properties or applications in conjunction with our content based on
information provided to us by our users and information provided to us by
third parties that they have independently collected. We do not provide
personal data to advertisers when you interact with an advertisement .

Your Ad Choices.
Some of the third party services providers and/or advertisers may be
members of the Network European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance
("EDAA") Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioural Advertising. To
learn more, visit
http://www.edaa.eu/edaa-for-users
which provides information regarding targeted advertising and the "opt-out"
procedures of EDAA members.

Mobile.
We may, from time to time, offer certain location or pinpoint based
services, such as location assisted navigation instruction. If you elect to
use such location-based services, we must periodically receive your
location in order to provide such location-based services to you. By using
the location-based services, you authorise us to: (i) locate your hardware;
(ii) record, compile and display your location; and (iii) publish your
location to third parties designated by you by means of location
publication controls available within the applications (for example,
settings, user preferences). As part of the location-based services, we may
also collect and store certain information about the users who elect to use
such location-based services, such as a device ID. This information will be
used to provide you the location-based services. We may use third-party
providers to help provide such location-based services through mobile
systems and we may make information available to such providers to enable
them to provide their location-based services, provided that such third
party providers may use the information only in accordance with this
Policy.

USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We may use your personal data as follows:

to operate, maintain, and improve our Services, products, and
services;

to manage your account, including to communicate with you regarding
your account, if you have an account on our Services;

to respond to your comments and questions and to provide customer
service;

to send information including technical notices, updates, security
alerts, and support and administrative messages;

with your consent, to send you marketing e-mails about upcoming
promotions, and other news, including information about products
and services offered by us and our affiliates. You may opt-out of
receiving such information at any time: such marketing emails tell
you how to “opt-out.” Please note, even if you opt out of receiving
marketing emails, we may still send you non-marketing emails.
Non-marketing emails include emails about your account with us (if
you have one) and our business dealings with you;

to process payments you may make via our Services

to link or combine user information with other personal data

as we believe necessary or appropriate (a) to comply with
applicable laws; (b) to comply with lawful requests and legal
process, including to respond to requests from public and
government authorities; (c) to enforce our Policy; and (d) to
protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of you
or others; and

as described in the “Sharing of your Personal Data” section below.

SHARING YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We may share your personal data as follows:

Third Parties Designated by You.
We may share your personal data with third parties where you have
provided your consent to do so.

OurThird Party Service Providers
. We may share your personal data with our third party service
providers who provide services such as data analysis, payment
processing, information technology and related infrastructure
provision, customer service, email delivery, auditing, reporting
and other similar services. These third parties are only permitted
to use your personal data to the extent necessary to enable them to
provide their services to us. They are required to comply with
appropriate security measures to protect your personal data.

Affiliates
. We may share some or all of your personal data with our
affiliates, in which case we will require our affiliates to comply
with this Policy. In particular, you may let us share personal data
with our affiliates where you wish to receive marketing
communications from them.

Corporate Restructuring.
We may share personal data when we do a business deal, or negotiate
a business deal, involving the sale or transfer of all or a part of
our business or assets. These deals can include any merger,
financing, acquisition, or bankruptcy transaction or proceeding.

Other Disclosures.
We may share personal data as we believe necessary or appropriate:
(a) to comply with applicable laws; (b) to comply with lawful
requests and legal process, including to respond to requests from
public and government authorities to meet national security or law
enforcement requirements; (c) to enforce our Policy; and (d) to
protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of you
or others.

ANONYMOUS DATA

When we use the term “anonymous data,” we are referring to data and
information that does not permit you to be identified or identifiable,
either alone or when combined with any other information available to a
third party.

We may create anonymous data from the personal data we receive about you
and other individuals whose personal data we collect. Anonymous data might
include analytics information and information collected by us using
cookies. We make personal data into anonymous data by excluding information
(such as your name) that makes the data personally identifiable to you. We
use this anonymous data to analyses usage patterns in order to make
improvements to our Services.

THIRD PARTY SITES

Our Services may contain links to third party websites and features. This
Policy does not cover the privacy practices of such third parties. These third parties have their own privacy policies and
we do not accept any responsibility or liability for their websites,
features or policies. Please read their privacy policies before you submit
any data to them

USER GENERATED CONTENT

You may share personal data with us when you submit user generated content
to our Services, including via forums, message boards, guest book entries
and blogs on our Services. Please note that any information you post or
disclose on our Services will become public information, and will be
available to other users of our Services and to the general public. We urge
you to be very careful when deciding to disclose your personal data, or any
other information, on our Services. Such personal data and other
information will not be private or confidential once it is published on our
Services.

If you provide feedback to us, we may use and disclose such feedback on our
Services , if you have provided your consent to do so, we may post your
first and last name along with your feedback on our Services. We will
collect any information contained in such feedback and will treat the
personal data in it in accordance with this Policy

INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFER

Your information, including personal data that we collect from you, will
not be transferred outside the EEA..

SECURITY

We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative
measures to protect personal data within our organization. Unfortunately,
no transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely
secure, and transmission of information via the internet is not completely
secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no
longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of any account
you might have with us has been compromised), please immediately notify us
of the problem by contacting us using the details in Section 20 below.

RETENTION

We will only retain your personal data as long reasonably required for us
to provide the Services until you request otherwise unless a longer
retention period is required or permitted by law for example for regulatory
purposes.

OUR POLICY ON CHILDREN

Our Services are not directed to children under 16. If a parent or guardian
becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with information
without their consent, he or she should contact us using the details in
Section 20 below. We will delete such information from our files as soon as
reasonably practicable.

SENSITIVE PERSONAL DATA

Subject to the following paragraph, we ask that you not send us, and you
not disclose, any sensitive personal data (e.g., social security numbers,
information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions,
religion or other beliefs, health, biometrics or genetic characteristics,
criminal background or trade union membership) on or through the Services
or otherwise to us

If you send or disclose any sensitive personal data to us when you submit
user generated content to our Services, you consent to our processing and
use of such sensitive personal data in accordance with this Policy. If you
do not consent to our processing and use of such sensitive personal data,
you must not submit such user generated content to our Services.

Your Rights

Opt-out.
You may contact us anytime to opt-out of: (i) direct marketing
communications; (ii) automated decision-making and/or profiling;
(iii) our collection of sensitive personal data; (iv) any new
processing of your personal data that we may carry out beyond the
original purpose; or (v) the transfer of your personal data outside
the EEA. Please note that your use of some of the Services may be
ineffective upon opt-out.

Access.
You may access the information we hold about you at any time via
your profile/account or by contacting us directly.

Amend.
You can also contact us to update or correct any inaccuracies in
your personal data.

Move.
Your personal data is portable – i.e. you to have the flexibility
to move your data to other service providers as you wish.

Erase and forget.
In certain situations, for example when the information we hold
about you is no longer relevant or is incorrect, you can request
that we erase your data.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the
details in Section 20 below. In your request, please make clear: (i)what personal data is concerned; and (ii) which of the above rights you would like to enforce. For
your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the
personal data associated with the particular email address that you use to
send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before
implementing your request. We will try to comply with your request as soon
as reasonably practicable and in any event, within one month of your
request. Please note that we may need to retain certain information for
recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you began
prior to requesting such change or deletion.

COMPLAINTS

We are committed to resolve any complaints about our collection or use of
your personal data. If you would like to make a complaint regarding this
Policy or our practices in relation to your personal data, please contact
us at: [email protected] We will reply to your complaint as soon as we
can and in any event, within 45 days. We hope to resolve any complaint
brought to our attention, however if you feel that your complaint has not
been adequately resolved, you reserve the right to contact your local data
protection supervisory authority, which for the UK, is the Information
Commissioner’s Office.

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